"Sir, there is actually another key point about the ceremony. Since the slaves originally prepared by Chad have all escaped, we are now short of living sacrifices to further pollute the Mirror Moon Statue. Otherwise...Sir, could you please contact other strongholds and ask them to send some slaves over?"
"No need for that. I've said before that I don't want to keep asking for things, including slaves. Besides, it's very troublesome to transport these slaves from other places. Now the hunters have begun to focus on the northern suburbs, and transporting slaves here may attract their attention. Besides, we have living sacrifices available now..."
After taking a sip of red wine, Claudio said slowly. Avery was stunned after hearing Claudio's words, and then said with some horror.
"There are still living sacrifices available. Sir, are you going to let your subordinates..."
"Oh, no, what I mean is, aren't there a lot of students there? It's enough to take more than half of the students who can read books and not many people to be sacrificed. Anyway, we can't stay in this school base anymore. After the ceremony, these students who are used for cover are no longer useful. They are used for sacrifice."
Claudius continued to mutter, and Avery was stunned for a moment after hearing his words. After a long while, he slowly spoke.
"Your Excellency, what you mean is that using those students as living sacrifices... wouldn't that kill too many people at once? If they were discovered, would it anger the Security Bureau and cause them to intensify their search?"
"Don't worry. As long as the defilement ceremony of this statue is completed, our 'influence' will be further expanded, and I believe that by then the threat from the Kingdom Government can be suppressed to a certain extent, including the Security Bureau."
Waving his hand, Claudiu said with a mysterious smile. Listening to old Claudiu's words, Avery's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion.
"As long as the ceremony is completed, everything will be fine?"
In the office, Claudiu and Avery were discussing with each other. At this moment, out of sight of either of them, under the crack of the door, a small gecko was lying there, quietly watching the scene in the room.
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At this moment, in the library of the King's Campus, Dorothy, who was sitting in a secluded corner and pretending to read a book, was feeling the information sent back by the corpse doll in the distance, thinking thoughtfully.
"I eavesdropped... As expected, that guy didn't find out this time."
Thinking of this, Dorothy put down the book in her hand, picked up the notebook beside her, and wrote on it a summary of vampire abilities, which she had summarized from the information Beverly sold her.
Holding the notebook, Dorothy's eyes swept across the abilities in front of her, and finally stopped at "Spiritual Perception (Cup. Shadow)".
'The reason why the bald bat who was Claudius was able to sense my small corpse doll before was probably because of this skill... It can sense the 'cup' spirits in the surrounding environment and the 'shadow' spirits that are not hidden to a certain extent, and can detect whether they are abnormal.
'My small corpse puppet is a meat puppet driven by a 'cup'. Compared to the 'cup' in a normal human body, this 'cup' affected by extraordinary power is in an abnormal state, so it can be easily sensed by Claudio, causing my monitoring to fail.'
While thinking this, Dorothy shifted her gaze and looked at the ring on her hand with a crescent moon engraved on it. This was the ring of concealment left to her by her mother.
"But this time, my corpse puppet was completely undetectable after being protected by the Ring of Concealment. I didn't expect that its detection ability would improve after it was promoted to the Black Rank."
Dorothy continued to think. At this moment, she was using the extraordinary conduction effect of spiritual silk to transmit the effect of "hidden protection" of herself by the Ring of Concealment to the small corpse doll in the distance. The small corpse doll could enjoy the protection of the Ring of Concealment, so it was not sensed by Claudius' spiritual induction.
Unlike the corpse puppet, Dorothy needs to constantly transfer the "cup" spirit to the corpse puppet through the spiritual thread to maintain the corpse puppet's activities, so there is always a certain amount of "cup" in the corpse puppet. The Ring of Concealment remotely brings the corpse puppet into its own protection range through the spiritual thread, and does not transfer "shadow" to the corpse puppet. The corpse puppet itself does not contain "shadow", so Claudius's "shadow" spiritual perception cannot sense the existence of the corpse puppet.
Furthermore, the "shadow" spiritual perception can only perceive the "shadow" that is not used in a hidden way, such as the "shadow" storage, the "shadow" extraordinary items, the "shadow" wind made by elementalization, the "shadow" blade made by enchantment, etc. An extraordinary "shadow" who relies on the "shadow" spirituality to hide cannot be seen through the "shadow" spiritual perception, and still needs to be illuminated by the "light".
Relying on the new abilities gained from being promoted to the Black Rank, combined with the original abilities, Dorothy carefully eavesdropped on Claudius this time and obtained a very valuable series of intelligence.
'What kind of ritual do these guys want to perform around the statue in the underground level? And the time is very short, it will start in three days, and during the ritual, they will sacrifice students who have been corrupted by the poison?
"Heh... I originally thought that these guys would withdraw from this school due to the pressure from the Security Bureau, but I didn't expect that they actually sent the Security Bureau people away for some reason, and now they want to make a big move? This is really..."
After sorting out the information she got from Claudius, Dorothy was still a little surprised. At the same time, she had many questions in her mind. What was the purpose of the Eight-pointed Nest? Why did this group of people need to find the Mirror Moon Statue? What exactly did they want to do by using the ritual to pollute the Mirror Moon Statue? Why would the Mirror Moon Statue expand its "influence" if it was polluted more? Could this so-called "influence" even reduce the threat from the Kingdom Government or even the Security Bureau?
A series of questions lingered in Dorothy's mind, but she no longer had much time to think about them. The most urgent task was how to deal with the ceremony three days later.
'I have already been promoted to the black level, so the ruins below are no longer useful to me. I don't need to get involved in this matter at all. What I need to do is to continue to accumulate spiritual energy and follow the new clues for promotion.
"But...if we don't do anything, the corrupted students of the Secret Academy may not be saved. They will be sacrificed alive in the ritual. I promised Nefernis to help her fight against the thorns and save her fellow students..."
Dorothy thought so. To be honest, Nephnis helped a lot in Dorothy's promotion this time. She now plans to cultivate Nephnis into her own power like Vanya... She doesn't want to break her promise, but she also doesn't want to stand by and watch her die.
"Besides...according to the current situation, the Eight-pointed Nest is looking for the Mirror Moon Statue. They must have dug up a lot of ancient sites. Maybe they know the whereabouts of the remains of the Star Number Book Society? Maybe there are other places like the King's Campus, where there are remains of the Star Number Book Society and the Mirror Moon Statue? If we target the Eight-pointed Nest, maybe we can find some clues?"
'Besides... I am extremely poor now. After the promotion, I became poor again. I have no money and no spirituality. When I was in Igwinter, I made my fortune by robbing the Holy Communion. Now I want to make a fortune again. So, isn't it right for me to have another goal and opportunity now?'
Thinking about money and spirituality, Dorothy's mind became active. Looking at the Eight-Pointed Nest stronghold where Cretaceous was stationed, she suddenly became a lot bolder and had the idea of taking advantage of him.
"Well, but there is still a chance. I'd better report it as usual and see how the Security Bureau reacts."
Dorothy murmured this and closed the book in her hand.
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